health

It’s the start of the new year, which means that we’re all AT LEAST trying to eat just a little bit better. However, saying it is one thing, but actually doing it is just a little bit harder, but not for much longer.

This recipe collection features so many ways to make eating better just that much easier. And how does it do that, you may ask? With some alternative fats and proteins, that is!

Having a sweet tooth has always seemed like just another part of my identity. I end most of my days with chocolate or ice cream (or both), I enjoy baking and I always reach for sweet over salty snacks. I go through most days with sugar on my mind, and I never thought about what I was doing to my body by doing so.

As a country, we consume too much sugar. Three times the recommended amount actually. The American Heart Association recommends 38 grams of sugar a day for men and 25 grams for women, but the average American consumes 82 grams every day.

One of the main reasons why people don’t like salads are because they tend to be pretty boring. And while we somewhat agree with that, there are so many delicious salads out there that are anything but boring!

You know what we love? We love stating warm. Especially when a lot of us are sitting in the negative degrees. Other than staying indoors, eating a nice & hot bowl of soup is the perfect way to get that warmth all through your bones.

This amazing Green Eggs and Pea Soup is perfect to get you warm and cozy, and different enough to keep your tastebuds guessing.

For the past year or two, almond milk and other alternatives to dairy milk have been on the rise. The non-dairy sections of grocery stores continue to grow, and many Americans are considering making the switch themselves. Consumers often cite ethical, environmental, and health-based concerns as their reason for excluding dairy milk from their diets.

Plant milk companies, like Silk and Almond Breeze, claim that their products are better for your health, while dairy companies state that consumers of non-dairy milk are missing out on important nutrients found in dairy. Since these sources aren’t exactly free from bias, we’re here to test which of these claims is true. This article compares fat free (skim) milk, and reduced fat (2%) milk from Dean’s Dairy Pure to unsweetened almond milk, and soymilk from Silk.

Life as a food writer can be exciting, creatively inspiring, and can mean hours on my feet each day running around the kitchen testing new recipes. On the other hand, it can also mean there are times when I am chained to my desk writing recipes, composing blogs and updating social media.

I love the days when I am “out and about” and I have begun to dread the days where I had to just sit in my office for hours at a time. By the end of the day my knees were stiff and my back was sore from all that sitting. I knew there had to be a solution to these “desk days.”

So, I started googling and came upon the LifeSpan Fitness Treadmill Desks. Could a treadmill desk be a tool for food writers and bloggers like myself? Could it be the solution to anyone who spends a significant portion of their work day behind a computer screen? I decided to check it out for myself.